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助。：Jaguars Dont Live Here AnymoreA)Earlier this month, the

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：Jaguars Dont Live Here Anymore

A)Earlier this month, the United States Fish and Wildlife

Service announced it would appoint" critical habitat" for the

endangered jaguar. Jaguars--the worlds third-largest wild cats,

weighing up to 250 pounds, with distinctive black rosettes ( 玫

瑰花色 ) on their fur--are a separate species from the smaller,

tawny (黄褐色的 ) mountain lions, which still roam large areas

of the American West in the United States and take the first

steps toward mandating (批准) a jaguar recovery plan. This is

a policy reversal and, on the surface, it may appear to be a

victory for the conservation community and for jaguars, the

largest wild cats in the Western Hemisphere.

B) But as someone who has studied jaguars for nearly three

decades, I can tell you it is nothing less than a slap in the

face to good science. Whats more, by changing the rules for

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animal preservation, it stands to weaken the Endangered Species

Act.

C)The debate on what to do about jaguars started in 1997, when,

at the urging of many biologists ( including me), the Fish and

Wildlife Service put the jaguar on the United States endangered

species list, because there had been occasional sightings of

the cats crossing north over the United States-Mexico border.

At the same time, however, the agency ruled that it would not

be "prudent" (谨慎的 ) to declare that the jaguar has

critical .habitat--a geographic area containing features the

species needs to survive--in the United States. Determining an

endangered species critical habitat is a first step toward

developing a plan for helping that species recover.

D)The 1997 decision not to determine critical habitat for the

jaguar was the right one, because even though they cross the

border from time to time, jaguars dont occupy any territory in

our country--and that probably means the environment here is

no longer ideal for them.

E)In prehistoric times, these beautiful cats inhabited

significant areas of the western United States, but in the past

100 years, there have been few, if any, resident breeding

populations here. The last time a female jaguar with a cub ( 幼

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兽 ) was sighted in this country was in the early 1900s.

F)Two well-intentioned conservation advocacy groups, the

Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, sued

the Fish and Wildlife Service to change its ruling. Thus in 2006,

the agency reassessed the situation and again determined that

no areas in the United States met the definition of critical

habitat for the jaguar. Despite occasional sightings, mostly

within 40 miles of the Mexican border, there were still no data

to indicate jaguars had taken up residence inside the United

States.

G ) After this second ruling was made, an Arizona rancher ( 牧

场主 ), with support from the state Game and Fish Department,

set infrared-camera (红外摄像机 ) traps togather more data,

and essentially confirmed the Fish and Wildlife Services

findings. The cameras did capture transient jaguars, including

one male jaguar, nick named Macho, B, who roamed the Arizona

borderlands for more than a decade. But Macho B, now dead, might

have been the sole resident American jaguar, and his extensive

travels indicated he was not having an easy time surviving in

this dry, rugged region.

H) Despite the continued evidence, the two conservation

advocacy groups continued to sue the government. Apparently,

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they want jaguars to repopulate the United State seven if

jaguars dont wan! to. Last March, a federal district judge in

Arizona ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit its

2006 determination on critical habitat.

I)The facts havent changed: there is still no area in the

United States essential to the conservation of the jaguar. But,

having asserted this twice already, the service, nowunder a new

president, has bent to the tiresome litigation (诉讼). On Jan.

12, Fish and Wildlife officials, claimed to have evaluated new

scientific information that had become available after the July

2006 ruling. They determined that it is now prudent to appoint

critical habitat for the jaguar in the United States.

J)This means that Fish and Wildlife must now also formulate

a recovery plan for the jaguar. And since jaguars have not been

able to reestablish themselves naturally over the past century,

the government will likely have to go to significant expense

to attempt to bring them back--especially if the cats have to

be reintroduced.

K)So why not do everything we can, at whatever cost, to bring

jaguars back into the United States? To begin with, the American

Southwest is, at best, marginal habitat for the animals. More

important, there are better ways to help jaguars. South of our

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border, from Mexico to Argentina, thousands of jaguars live and

breed in their true critical habitat. Governments and

conservation groups (including the one I head) are already

working hard to conserve jaguar populations and connect them

to one another through an initiative called the Jaguar

Corridor.

L).The jaguars that now and then cross into the United States

most likely come from the northernmost population of jaguars,

in Sonora, Mexico. Rather than demand jaguars return to our

country, we should help Mexico and other jaguar-range countries

conserve the animals true habitat it

M )The recent move by the Fish and Wildlife Service means that

the rare federal funds devoted to protecting wild animals will

be wasted on efforts that cannot help save jaguars. It also

stands to weaken the Endangered Species Act, because if

critical habitat is redefined as any place where a species might

ever have existed, and where you or I might want it to exist

again, then the door is open for many other sense less efforts

to bring back long-lost creatures.

N)The Fish and Wildlife officials whose job is to protect the

countrys wild animals need to grow a stronger backbone--stick

with their original, correct decision and save their money for

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more useful preservation work. Otherwise, when funds are needed

to preserve all those small, ugly, non-charismatic endangered

species at the back of the line, there may be no money left.

1. It is still a fact that there is no suitable place for

jaguars to live safely in the United States.

2. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service should be more

determined and saving for the conservation work.

3. Jaguars were regarded as endangered species because of

their rare appearance at the United States-Mexico border.

4. Money was not spent effectively in helping save jaguars

in the recent move by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

5. It can be inferred that the United States is not the best

choice for jaguars to live from the evidence that they dont

settle anywhere here.

6. South of the United States border, from Mexico to Argentina,

is the true critical habitat for jaguars.

7. The number of jaguars breeding populations in significant

areas of the western United States has deceased in the past

century.

8. It is necessary for the government to invest lots of funds

in order to help jaguars to reestablish.

9. It didnt indicate that jaguars had settled down in the

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